Posts Tagged ‘time’
In Derrida’s reading of Marx, Specters of Marx, in its first chapter, Derrida inserts, within parentheses, a reading of Blanchot’s Marx’s Three Voices, within which he inserts a reading of Heidegger’s The Anaximander Fragment.
These critical measures provide Derrida with the resources for his later analysis of Marx’s texts. Now, given Derrida’s invocation of The [...]
Ok, so here I’m gong to start posting some of my notes on Derrida’s Specters of Marx. Others around the place have been doing this (notably Rough Theory and Praxis), and I certainly don’t expect to reach the complexity or length of their posts. Let’s just go piece by piece.
From my point of view, the [...]
The Fourth Day
The fourth chapter is Agamben’s analysis of ‘messianic time’, which comes under his commentary on the word apostolos, the sixth word (it actually precedes aphorismenos from the third chapter) in the first verse of Romans. It is the longest and most involved chapter thus far, but I felt equally rewarding. [...]
I’ve been reading Specters of Marx. Halfway through the first chapter, Derrida launches from his ruminations on time being ‘out of joint’, and the various senses that this might take – in particular when attempting to translate it into French – into a discussion of Heidegger, time, justice, the gift, and the various disjunctions that [...]
